...engineering approaches and scientific know-how to design/build/test their own project ideas using synthetic...newsletters, pairs teams with STEM mentors, and provides a nationally recognized platform in March to exhibit...s BioBuilderClub teams’ biological engineering designs and ideas ranged from a biological breathalyzer...

...positive effect on cancer treatment (Ref 1). As described in the presentation, starvation or the use of ...field of Immuno-Oncology, a sizzling hot topic, includes studies on novel cancer therapeutics such as  ... with T cell receptor engineering (Ref 5)  as described by Blue Flame Addgene depositor Professor Michel...

...tables with fluorescent protein properties and provides a quick way to compare fluorescent proteins, e.g...been used in yeast by Lee et al (2013) and in nematodes by El Mouridi et al (2017) and Heppert et al (...practical brightness. Therefore, practical brightness provides a better picture of what can be expected in a ...

...editing!  A recent paper from Feng Zhang's lab describes how to use Cpf1 for multiplex genome editing.  ...sequence NGG TTTV PAM site preserved? Usually Destroyed Yes, Cpf1 cleaves 5' of the protospacer Multiplexing....  Similar to a jigsaw puzzle, the oligos were designed with sticky ends that only anneal together in ...

...immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is an extremely useful technique that provides insight into protein:DNA interactions. ChIP works...up the DNA, or enzymatic digestion. Sonication provides a truly random digestion, but is harsher and requires...both tissue or cell type, amount of protein, and desired fragment length for your output assay. A longer...

... also easy to run things in parallel. Addgene: Besides being fast and efficient, what other challenges...wanted something that would allow automation. This design cuts out weeks of waiting and hands on labor. That...Addgene, now these can be available to anyone for a modest cost without having to start all over or write ...

...bacterial lac operon contains a gene called lacZ that encodes for the enzyme β-galactosidase. Expression of the...process is called α-complementation. The system described above was put to practical use in the following...Although blue-white screening is probably the most widespread way to select for plasmids containing an insert...

...and does not consider the missing or damaged nucleotides that are common to biological sources of DSBs...better substrates for ligation. Although we do not describe these steps here, the processing of DNA ends tends...of the canonical Cas9 approach. A pair of CRISPR guides that flank regions of hundreds of base pairs or...

...TRIM21 recruits ubiquitin and the proteasome to destroy antibody-bound pathogens. Clift et al. found that...necessary for studying endosomes, the Hell lab designed their super-resolution pH indicators (SRpHi) biosensors...sgRNAs are used with FIRE-Cas9, experiments can be designed to target multiple loci at once. In addition, ...

...GFP-labeled cells. Once Tang and Cepko found a description of GFP-binding nanobodies, the project really...stable inside cells. Nanobodies binding GFP were designed in 2009. Subsequent work showed that nanobodies...green-red Cre-lox systems. T-DDOGs can also be designed with other DNA-binding domains, including the ...

...growing dialogue on the state of a system that, despite all of its successes, has many deep-rooted flaws...all bad, however - there are some signs that the tides may be turning. In 2013, the NIH announced its first...in Scientific Training (BEST) awards, which are designed to support new approaches that address the need...

...transfer origin as well as a selectable marker and a desired genetic payload (ex: GFP). Thus, cells can be both... RNA toehold switch, a RNA hairpin that can be designed to bind and detect nearly any RNA sequence. Downstream...components for gene disruption or CRISPRi. While designed to study the bee microbiome, these broad-host-...

...donated skin, blood and semen samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids containing Cas9 and two different gRNAs... at 3 days post fertilization. Since Ma et al. designed a repair template with two synonymous mutations...thus quieting some fears about the creation of “designer babies.” The differences in editing between iPS...

...ortholog requires a different PAM sequence, a gRNA designed for one dCas9 should be specific to that ortholog...boxB Magenta boxB-MS2 White boxB-MS2-PP7 Despite the success of Ma et al.’s approach, fluorescently...genome editing. Such a system has been previously described for transcriptional activation/repression and ...

...is tested following each immunization until the desired level of antibodies is reached - typically within...within 2-4 months. After the animal has the desired level of antibodies in its bloodstream, the antibodies...species. Pre-adsorbed polyclonal antibodies are designed for experiments where antibodies raised in several...

...serotypes The names of AAVs contain two numerical designations, separated by a slash, that indicate the ITR...interested in expressing multiple small genes, you can design single rAAV vectors with multiple genes packaged... an option (McCarty et al., 2001). This AAV is designed so that the single stranded DNA folds back on ...

...you labeled your gene of interest incorrectly on slides 8-16. Your notes disappear. The wrong version of... speaking is hard. Aside from the diving board charades, I doubt anyone but me remembers any of the incidents... biomedical field, with very little text on the slides and notes instead of written speeches. When you...

... In frogs, ectopic expression of ion channels, despite having an otherwise normal genomic background, ...Subsequent cutting results in a two-headed worm, despite the fact that it’s genetically wild type  (Oveido...fluorescent voltage indicator with near-complete desensitization in continuous light. ArcLight Q239 - A GEVI...

... try amplifying the viral vector with bacteria designed to minimize rearrangements such as NEB Stable ...production of virus. Alternatively, if the virus encodes a fluorescent protein, the packaging cells could...working with, there’s a lot that goes into virus design, production, and transduction. Once you’ve harvested...

...throughout the library preparation process and includes Picogreen quantification of various intermediate...sequences for Illumina sequencing as well as unique barcodes per sample so we can assign sequencing reads to... use a modified version of the Python program described by Joung et al. 2017, which we hope to make available...